St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency
St. Mary's Regional Hospital and Intermountain HealthSt. Mary's Family Medicine Residency
The St. Mary’s Regional Hospital Family Medicine Residency offers a fully accredited three-year family medicine residency program designed to prepare residents for success in any practice setting.
About our program
For 50 years, St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency in Grand Junction, Colorado, has trained broad-spectrum family physicians to serve under-represented communities. Surrounded by the stunning landscapes of Western Colorado, our program combines rigorous, hands-on training with an ethic we call “casual excellence”—where high standards meet a culture of respect, balance, and authenticity. Join us and fulfill your career vision in a place where purpose meets adventure.
Our program seeks to provide training for residents and students in full-spectrum family medicine, caring for patients of all ages, genders and backgrounds. We provide this training in the context of high-quality, hands-on patient care experiences using biopsychosocial, interdisciplinary, evidence-based approaches. Residents graduate with the skills necessary to practice in rural underserved areas where healthcare resources may be limited, while maintaining flexibility to pursue their desired career paths.
Where We Train
Our residents have the opportunity to rotate through a variety of settings, including:
St. Mary's Regional Hospital
St. Mary's Regional Hospital was established in 1896 by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth and merged with Intermountain Health in 2022. It is the largest medical center between Denver and Salt Lake City, with a catchment area of approximately 250 miles in all directions.
Our 300-bed Level II Trauma Center and NICU offers unopposed resident training and hosts the most subspecialities in Grand Junction. St. Mary’s has earned Center of Excellence designations for Stroke, Cardiac and Vascular care.
St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency Clinic
The St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Clinic is a busy, full-service family medicine clinic with a diverse patient population. We are a NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home focused on providing care for all individuals regardless of ability to pay for services. 42% of our patients have Medicaid, 26% have Medicare, 22% are commercially insured, and 7% have no insurance. We have caregivers who are bilingual in Spanish as well as medical interpretation services readily available. You will work alongside medical assistants, care coordinators, a pharmacist, registered nurses, and behavioral health providers.
- Including specialized clinics: MAT (medication assisted therapy), gynecology, OMT (osteopathic manipulation therapy), sports medicine, outpatient surgical procedures
Additional Sites
Mesa County Health Department
Catholic Outreach Day Center
Western Colorado HIV Specialty Care Clinic
St. Mary’s Integrated Addiction Medicine Clinic
Family Health West Emergency Department
Grand Junction VA Medical Center
Children’s Hospital of Colorado subspecialty outreach clinics
Del Norte, Colorado
Buena Vista, Colorado
Curriculum
Our mission is to train full spectrum family practice physicians for rural practice with a focus on integrated team care. We are dedicated to the education of thriving and engaged health professionals and to promoting family wellness through high-value whole-person care.
In Western Colorado, we have a unique position as the only referral hospital in an area of more than 250,000 square miles. When training for rural practice, you will be encouraged to:
- Gain exposure to the widest possible range of pathology
- Exercise your own judgment
- Utilize your elective time to achieve competence in all aspects of family medicine with a particular focus on your professional goals
Your experience will include training in didactics, quality improvement, longitudinal behavioral medicine, and training in a full-service family medicine clinic. We also provide opportunities such as choosing an area of concentration, additional training in global health, practicing in the HIV specialty care clinic, and developing skills in obstetrics and women's health, osteopathic medicine, addiction medicine, and behavioral health.
Resident Salary and Benefits
We have the perfect balance of medical education and outdoor adventure at their finest.
- Resident-led Wellness Committee
- Faculty/Resident and Whole clinic retreats
- Education fund money available for each year of training
- Access to free or low-cost mental health support services
- Close free parking at the clinic and hospital
- Moving allowance of $1,000
- Meals during call & conferences (remarkably good food!)
- Medical Library with full-time support staff
- and more!
More details are available on our website. For more information about benefits, contact our program manager, Joan Cox at (970) 298-2195 or email stmarysfmresidency@imail.org.
Application Requirements
Applicants must be graduates of approved US or Canadian medical schools. International Medical School Graduates please see additional requirements below.
Applications are only accepted via ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service).
All applications must include:
- Transcript
- MSPE (Medical Student Performance Evaluation)
- USMLE board scores for Step 1 and 2 or the COMLEX Level 1 and 2, (Passing Step 2, and COMLEX Level 2 CE, PE scores due by rank order list deadline)
- Personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation in addition to the MSPE. One letter of recommendation must be from a family physician who has supervised you clinically
Requirements for international medical school graduates
International medical school graduates may apply if they:
- Have graduated from medical school within the past three years
- Hold a valid Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certificate with the CSA (Clinical Skills Assessment)
- Are able obtain a full unrestricted Colorado Medical License by their PGY2 year of training. We encourage international medical school graduates to reach out to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) for more information regarding their implementation of bill HB22-1050.
Applications are only accepted and reviewed via ERAS.
Visas are not sponsored. No ECFMG J1 or other visas accepted.
*Unrestricted Colorado Medical License (not a training license) and DEA License.
**The program is aware of the passage of bill HB22-1050 regarding pathways to licensure for graduates from schools outside of the USA. There are multiple process and operational changes that will need to be created before there is a clear path to Colorado licensure for International Medical Graduates. We do not anticipate any change in our process or requirements.